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Eric
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I will post some proper motocross images later but couldn't resist this as an opener... Click here to comment on this image. |
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Eric
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Eric
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Iain
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I like those. |
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Eric
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Did you ever cover motorsport Iain? |
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Eric
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Tongue in cheek perhaps.... Click here to comment on this image. |
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Iain
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Eric wrote:Did you ever cover motorsport Iain?How did I miss this till now!! Yes I did Eric, been a while since I did any though. |
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Eric
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I never did back in the day. Best Western didn’t do a lot of motorsport events in their hotels.  I did cover the regional launch of the Vauxhall Astra….blimey showing my age. |
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Eric
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It was quite funny as I recall…. I was commissioned by a London agency to cover all the razzmatazz in the East of England launch. It was a real pain as there was a lot of hanging about well into the evenings, as they wanted EVERYTHING recording. I nearly ran out of film!! After sending them my trannies they rang me back saying they were pleased with my work and wanted me to cover the main event at Blenheim Palace. I wasn’t particularly keen on driving half way across the country to hang about at their behest. I said I was too busy and the bloke asked me if I knew another good photographer ‘there’. When Inpointed out I didn’t know any people let alone photographers in Oxfordshire he was bemused…..he didn’t know where Blenheim Palace was or that it was nowhere near Norfolk. Made me wonder if his appreciation of good photography was as good as his knowledge of geography. |
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Iain
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I covered one car release here in the north east, it was the Mazda 626. I had much the same experience as you although the food was good. |
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Graham Whistler
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Sorry more from the past in Rhodesia 1964-70: I did a lot of motorsport driving mostly production cars like my very suped-up Mini Cooper 1275 Cooper S. The F! Lotus in the picture was driven by UKs Jim Clarke the previous year and now owned by a local race driver friend Clive Pusey (he kindly let me drive a few laps with it on a practice day!) Click here to comment on this image.  Click here to comment on this image.  Click here to comment on this image. |
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Eric
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I like the fact they seem to still have a tax disk on the windscreen....so you could drive them home legally. |
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Eric
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Robert will remember this event...our visit to Cadwell park. Blimey 16years ago!!!!!!!!!!!!! Where does the time go????????? Click here to comment on this image. |
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Graham Whistler
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Not very easy to drive on the public road with a full race high lift cam and power only came in at high revs, also very noisy. |
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Eric
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Graham Whistler wrote:Not very easy to drive on the public road with a full race high lift cam and power only came in at high revs, also very noisy.I don’t know if you knew of Maurice (Mo) Mendham who raced minis and low formula cars back on the 70s in the UK. He also did crash repairs from the back yard of his parent’s pub in Watford. We came across him when Jan’s Austin 1100 had an argument with a lorry’s nearside wheel. He repaired it and left it in the street awaiting her collecting it ….and a Council refuse cart reversed into the other side!! So it needed an extended stay and more surgery from him. When we eventually went to collect her car he was cutting a mini down all round to reduce its weight for racing. The mini is on this video… https://youtu.be/heL84f5limE?si=jMU5KezOpal6Qrhd His modified mini is at 1:30 and racing at 5:20. His business was Mendham Conversions. Anyway he was done by the police for driving a single seater unregistered racing car between Rickmansworth and Watford……with his girlfriend attached to it. It was unclear exactly how she was attached to it but she couldn’t have fitted in the seated area so was presumably handing onto something. It was 2am and only a 5 mile round trip to her home….but he was apprehended ….and as a result lost his racing licence as well as his Road licence. The memories that come flooding back. Came across this old forum discussion about Mo and some of his opponents… https://tentenths.com/forum/showthread.php?t=131336 And here’s his cut down lightweight mini in action.  Click here to comment on this image. |
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